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How trade may have worked in the ancient times is one of the most fascinating aspects about history for me. There is the Nebra sky disc[1], which is estimated t
by jansan 2y ago
How trade may have worked in the ancient times is one of the most fascinating aspects about history for me. There is the Nebra sky disc[1], which is estimated to be 3500 years old. The gold seems to have come from Cornwall/England, the Copper came from Austria, and the disc itself may have been manufactured in Anatolia. This is not halfway around the world, but I wonder who did those trades. Was it individual adventurers or something like armies bringing the materials from one place to another? Was there an existing trade network in place?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
- n4r9 2y agoPerhaps not directly trade related but there's also the recent discovery that the 6 tonne Altar Stone at Stone Henge was transported there from 700km away in Scotland at around 2600BCE. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_Stone_(Stonehenge) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_Stone_(Stonehenge)
- mzi 2y ago> Vikings had offered service to the Byzantine courts presumably sailing down the rivers from the north, or round the coast. Maybe one of them brought something back north "Väringar"[0], traded, traveled, and fought from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea. And they most certainly brought a lot back home. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians